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:: 11.09.2005 ::

:: Miller Time ::

Judith Miller's scoops the Times on her own "Farewell Letter"
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I haven't checked Judith Miller's website since early in her prison term -- but today it just got relevant. Today Judy has posted not only her own "Farewell Letter" (aka "hotly-contested op-ed piece") but she's also made public all her communiqués with Bill Keller, Barney Calame, and Maureen Dowd regarding what was printed about her in the paper.

Judy to MoDo: "I agree with you that reporters must be more than stenographers. The same is true of columnists. I hope you will correct the record soon."

Judy to Barney: "I'm saddened that you, like so many others, have blurred the core issue of that stand and I am stunned that you refused to post my answers to issues we had discussed on your web site at the critical moment that Times readers were forming their opinions" (Ed. Ooh. That is kind of uncool. In the paper is one thing, responses to specifically-posed questions is another."

Judy to you: "The right of reply and the obligation to correct inaccuracies are also the mark of a free and responsible press. I am gratified that Bill Keller, The Times executive editor, has finally clarified remarks made by him that were unsupported by fact and personally distressing. Some of his comments suggested insubordination on my part. I have always written the articles assigned to me, adhered to the paper's sourcing and ethical guidelines, and cooperated with editorial decisions, even those with which I disagreed."

Full farewell after the jump, but before the Paper of Record.

Read more here.

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